July 7, 2010

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• review the elements of short story.

• review adjectives and adverbs.

• learn about prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.

• Chart a non-fiction text.

Homework:

• Dialectical Journal: "The Cask of Amontillado" (Due Friday)
• Mr. Devine is also checking all today's work tomorrow.

Reminders:

• Checking homework today:
  • See the list on the white board.
• Summer School Planner (Due Each Friday)
  • summer school planner 2010.pdf

Agenda

• Adjectives and Adverbs
• Adverbs Practice
  • Adverbs that Modify Verbs
  • Adverbs that Modify Adjectives and other Adverbs
  • Adjective or Adverb?
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• Working in groups of 3 to 4, complete an Elements of Short Story chart for "Before the End of Summer"
  • Take this work seriously: questions about "Before the End of Summer" and the Elements of Short Story will be on our quiz this Friday.
  • Last week's quiz was worth 10 points, this one will be worth 25 points.
  • This means that if you learn more about the Elements of Short Story, you can raise your grade significantly by doing better on this week's quiz than you did on last week's quiz.

• What is the theme of the story?
• Find 3 quotations that show the theme and create a Dialectical Journal.
• Dialectical Journal Template.pdf

• Review your response to the Terrorism Quick Write from yesterday.
• Turn to the person next to you and explain why you agree/disagree with the idea that the United States should invest in racial profiling in order to catch potential terrorist or prevent potential terrorist attacks.

• Review how to Chart a text.
• In pairs, students re-read the article and chart each paragraph.
  • Use the list of verbs you copied yesterday.
  • Each student will have his/her own chart.